Left-wing parties have an “obligation to work together” to challenge the “worst government imaginable”, taking inspiration from the coalition that swept Catherine Connolly to the presidency, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has insisted. She told the Irish Examiner that the left parties will have to continue to work together to force them from office. “We’re different political parties, so we don’t share the same ground on everything,” she said. “You’ve seen [it] through the speaking rights debacle, through the Catherine Connolly campaign most powerfully. Catherine won it”.

Source: Irish Examiner January 01, 2026 05:25 UTC